A woman who accused Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein of groping her breasts has been identified as a 22-year-old model who witnessed an orgy involving disgraced former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi.

Weinstein, 63, was questioned by the NYPD this weekend over the alleged fondling of former beauty queen Ambra Battilana, who was identified by Page Six on Monday. The movie producer allegedly put his hand up the model's skirt and asked for a kiss at a business meeting on Friday, said the Post.

Update: and he didn't deny the accusations either, so he could face a charge. His defense now is that it was a "one-time mistake" and say it "won't happen again". Right, and we should just take that at face value. Weinstein, as I said before, is nothing but a fraud.

Introducing the biggest threat to Mega-City One since terrorism, gurning new villain ‘Bilious Barrage’, who is set for a rough encounter with the famed law enforcement character when he uses a series of attacks to ignite racial tensions between native citizens and immigrants.

Writers have thus far remained guarded over the exact plot line of the story, called Judge Dredd: People Like Us. However, editors did indicate that clash may not end well for Barrage.

And it doesn’t take a massive leap of the imagination to pinpoint the inspiration behind Dredd’s evil new personality. The eagle-eyed among you may see a touch of Ukip leader Nigel Farage about Bilious.

“2000 AD has a long tradition of taking a pop at authority, stemming from its anti-establishment punk origins back in the Seventies,” 2000 AD editor Matt Smith said of the caricature, which is set to appear in the comic later this year.

“Whether it was Margaret Thatcher being executed on the steps of St Paul’s Cathedral by the Volgans in the very first issue, to Tony Blair being lampooned as the monomaniacal superhero B.L.A.I.R. 1, or Nemesis the Warlock ruthlessly satirising organised religion, 2000 AD has always taken a pop at the powerful and the pompous and no one, not even today’s politicians, is safe.”

This reminds me of a time when Doctor Who took a shot at Thatcher towards the end of its initial run between 1963-89, and the later revivals may have featured at least one more story with a negative stance on her, written by Neil Gaiman. It doesn't take much to figure out this attack on Farage may be connected to his oppositions to Islamofascism. Very, very cheap. And all this in a comic that prides itself on making the USA in the future look like a totalitarian regime. From what they say about Dredd's take on Blair, though, it doesn't sound like they were as negative to him as some of the others if they portrayed his counterpart as a superhero.

Republicans on Thursday ripped the emerging nuclear deal with Iran, and Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) demanded that lawmakers be able to review details of the framework before any international sanctions are lifted.

“After visiting with our partners on the ground in the Middle East this week, my concerns about Iran’s efforts to foment unrest, brutal violence and terror have only grown,” Boehner said in a statement after leading a GOP delegation through Israel, Iraq, Jordan and Saudi Arabia.

“It would be naïve to suggest the Iranian regime will not continue to use its nuclear program, and any economic relief, to further destabilize the region,” the Speaker said.

Meanwhile, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) vowed to press forward with legislation allowing Congress to put its fingerprints on the Iran deal, saying “the administration first should seek the input of the American people.”

Defense hawks on Capitol Hill blasted the deal as too weak and warned that it would essentially put nuclear weapons in the hands of the Iranian regime.

“Iran remains the world’s worst state sponsor of terrorism. Iranian aggression is destabilizing the Middle East. And Iran continues to hold multiple Americans hostage,” said freshman Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), who earlier had penned a controversial letter to Iranian leaders in a bid to derail the nuclear talks.

Thursday, April 02, 2015

Al-Shabab gunmen attacked a college in northeast Kenya early Thursday, targeting Christians and killing at least 15 people and wounding 60 others, witnesses said. The president said it is now a hostage situation.

Even as security forces cornered the gunmen in a dormitory at Garissa University College where they could be holding hostages, survivors described to The Associated Press a harrowing scene, where people were mercilessly gunned down and bullets whistled through the air as they ran for their lives.

Collins Wetangula, the vice chairman of the student union, said he was preparing to take a shower when he heard gunshots coming from Tana dorm, which hosts both men and women, 150 meters (yards) away. The campus has six dorms and at least 887 students, he said.

He said that when he heard the gunshots he locked himself and three roommates in their room.

"All I could hear were footsteps and gunshots nobody was screaming because they thought this would lead the gunmen to know where they are," he said. "The gunmen were saying sisi ni al-Shabab (Swaihi for we are al-Shabab)," Wetangula said.

When the gunmen arrived at his dormitory he could hear them opening doors and asking if the people who had hidden inside whether they were Muslims or Christians.

"If you were a Christian you were shot on the spot," he said. "With each blast of the gun I thought I was going to die."

The gunmen started to shoot rapidly and it was as if there was an exchange of fire, he said.

"The next thing, we saw people in military uniform through the window of the back of our rooms who identified themselves as the Kenyan military," Wetangula said. The soldiers took him and around 20 others to safety.

A spokesman for al-Shabab says it is responsible for the ongoing attack. Ali Mohamud Rage said in a radio broadcast that fighters from the group are conducting a "heavy" military operation inside the campus.

The Kenyan government is offering a bounty for the capture of terrorists still on the loose. Those still holed up at the university should be executed when they're finally captured.

PLEASE LET ME KNOW IN THE COMMENTS ANYTHING THAT COULD CRUSH A LIBERAL IN THE MEDIA....

I MEAN IF OBAMA CAN GET REELECTED AFTER BEING CAUGHT ON A LIVE MIKE WHISPERING TO THE RUSSIAN PRESIDENT THAT HE WILL BE MORE FLEXIBLE AFTER HIS LAST ELECTION THEN THERE IS NOTHING THEY CAN'T GET AWAY WITH, IS THERE???

President Soetoro is apparently furious that PM Netanyahu thinks the time is not right for a "two state solution."
But who rejected a "two state solution" in the first place?
In 1947, the United Nations proposed a "two state solution" for that remnant of the pre-WW2 British Mandate of Palestine which remained after 2/3 of the Mandate was taken to create the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.

The United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine was a proposal developed by the United Nations, which recommended a partitionwith Economic Union of Mandatory Palestine to follow the termination of the British Mandate. On 29 November 1947, the U.N.General Assembly adopted a resolution recommending the adoption and implementation of the Plan as Resolution 181(II).[2]The resolution recommended the creation of independent Arab and Jewish States and the Special International Regime for the City of Jerusalem. The Partition Plan, a four-part document attached to the resolution, provided for the termination of the Mandate, the progressive withdrawal of British armed forces and the delineation of boundaries between the two States and Jerusalem. Part I of the Plan stipulated that the Mandate would be terminated as soon as possible and the United Kingdom would withdraw no later than 1 August 1948. The new states would come into existence two months after the withdrawal, but no later than 1 October 1948. The Plan sought to address the conflicting objectives and claims of two competing movements: Arab nationalism in Palestine and Jewish nationalism, known as Zionism.[3][4] The Plan also called for Economic Union between the proposed states, and for the protection of religious and minority rights.
The Plan was accepted by the Jewish public, except for its fringes, and by the Jewish Agency despite its perceived limitations.[5][6]Arab leaders and governments rejected the plan of partition in the resolution[7] and indicated an unwillingness to accept any form of territorial division.[8] Their reason was that it violated the principles of national self-determination in the UN charter which granted people the right to decide their own destiny.[6][9]Immediately after adoption of the Resolution by the General Assembly, the civil war broke out.[10] The partition plan was not implemented.[11]

Not only did the Arabs reject the "two state solution," the war they started was launched with the express intention of genocidally killing all of the Jews and driving them into the sea.

ROUTINELY DEMAND THAT REPUBLICAN AND CONSERVATIVE POLITICIANS STOP USING THEIR MUSIC AT RALLIES AND ON COMMERCIALS:TPM - 2010:

If stereotypes held true, you would think that the Republicans would be the ones telling folks to turn that blasted music down. But this year -- and indeed in many past election cycles -- it's the GOP that has been attracting cease-and-desist letters for pilfering music against the artists' wishes. So let's take a look at some of the more notable GOP music fails from this cycle, and cycles past.Senate candidate Chuck DeVore (R-CA) got burned for using for using altered-lyric version ofDon Henley's "The Boys of Summer" and "All She Wants To Do Is Dance" for his campaign's Web ads. David Byrne is suing Gov. Charlie Crist (I-FL) for using "Road To Nowhere" in a Web ad during his previous Republican Senate primary fight, and of course, as we reported yesterday, Rush cut to the chase and told Senate nominee Rand Paul (R-KY) to stop playing "Tom Sawyer" and "The Spirit of Radio."The Orleans song "Still The One" has a special place in politics as it has been used not once without the band's permission, but twice -- and the first instance contributed to its author's entrance into national politics. In 2004, the Bush campaign used the song at a rally. As the song's main author, John Hall, told MSNBC in 2008: "George Bush was busy campaigning on an 'ownership society,' yet never asked me, the band, or the publishers for permission." Hall and other stakeholders in the song quickly sent a cease-and-desist letter, and the Bush campaign dropped the song.In 2006, Hall went on to be elected to Congress as a Democrat, defeating an incumbent Republican -- an event that was spurred in part by his experience from 2004. "It was one of the things that got him even madder," Hall press secretary Tom Staudter told TPMDC. And then in 2008, the Republicans used the song yet again, this time the ill-fated John McCain campaign. "This is yet another example of John McCain not learning anything from George Bush's mistakes," Hall told MSNBC, also adding: "The only one John McCain is Still the One for is George Bush."But that was only the tip of the iceberg for the McCain campaign -- which was practically a walking Limewire setup. Jackson Browne also sued it for using his song "Running On Empty" in an ad, for which the two sides later reached an out-of-court settlement. Van Halen objected to McCain's use of their song "Right Now" at a rally. The Wilson sisters from Heart strenuously objected to his campaign's use of "Barracuda" to promote Sarah Palin. And finally, the McCain campaign used "Pink Houses" and "Our Country" by John Mellencamp, who sent a letter demanding that they stop.Mellencamp had already been ripped off by the Bush campaign back in 2000, when they used "R.O.C.K. In The USA." He asked them to stop -- but that wasn't the end of it. "They said OK, and then used it anyway," Mellencamp told the Indianapolis Star, pointing out that the Bush campaign only stopped after the national media made fun of them for it. "I think they kind of said, 'Oh, this isn't playing the way we thought it would.' So I think they quit using it -- I think." (The Indianapolis Star, September 3, 2000, via Nexis.)The Bush campaign also used the Tom Petty song "I Won't Back Down," and the Sting tune "Brand New Day" -- and was told in each case to stop. Randall Wixen, the publisher of "I Won't Back Down," told the Bush camp to stop after being asked to do so by Petty's management, saying that the use of the song "creates, either intentionally or unintentionally, the impression that ... [the Bush] campaign have been endorsed by Tom Petty, which is not true."Four years earlier, the Bob Dole campaign was threatened with a lawsuit for its rewrite of the 1960s soul classic, "Soul Man," turning it into "Dole Man," much to the chagrin of the song's publishers at Rondor Music International. The campaign agreed to stop using the jingle, as the Chicago Tribune reported in September 1996: "Rondor announced on Tuesday that it had warned the Dole/Kemp campaign it could be held liable for damages of $100,000 for each unauthorized use of the song, plus legal costs, if a satisfactory settlement was not reached."Perhaps the most famous music fail was President Ronald Reagan's invocation during his 1984 re-election campaign of Bruce Springsteen -- Reagan did not actually play Springsteen's music, but tied his brand to the Boss's in a speech. "America's future rests in a thousand dreams inside your hearts," Reagan said. "It rests in the message of hope in songs of a man so many young American's admire: New Jersey's own Bruce Springsteen. And helping you make those dreams come true is what this job of mine is all about."Springsteen fired back by declaring at a concert that he doubted Reagan ever listened to the "Nebraska" album. Then the Democrats tried to claim Springsteen's support, only to have the Boss make it clear he was not endorsing anybody. (He later hit the campaign trail for John Kerry in 2004, and Barack Obama in 2008.)

Let’s say you’re a Republican running for president. You’re looking for a rousing pop anthem to pump up your troops and underscore your message. There’s plenty of music out there, but you have a problem: most of the pop stars, it seems, prefer Democrats. Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich were forced this week to stop using songs at their rallies after songwriters complained that the campaigns had played the pieces without permission. Strike another two songs from the Republican playlist: “Eye of the Tiger,” by Survivor, and “Wavin’ Flag,” by the Somali­ born musician K’naan. “When you think about every iconic song that has emotional resonance for millions and millions of Americans, in almost every instance, Republican candidates can’t use the song because the artist is not supportive,” said Steve Schmidt, a Republican campaign strategist who was Senator John McCain’s campaign manager in 2008 and worked on the re­election campaign of President George W. Bush. “All these artists are delighted to sell concert tickets to independents and Republicans.”

It's become a staple of politics: a politician walks onstage to a song. Musician gets mad. The latest flare-up came when the punk band Dropkick Murphys instructed Republican Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker to "please stop using our music in any way," they tweeted, then added: "We literally hate you !!!" ... And it's also not the first time this has happened in modern political history. As The Post's Chris Richards explained in 2011:
... this trope has played out during every campaign season like a broken record. Sometimes the disputes go unresolved. Artists can take legal action when a politician uses their music in a campaign advertisement without permission, but they have little recourse against candidates who pump the singers’ hits at public appearances — aside from shaming them in the pages of Rolling Stone.

THESE LEFTIST MUSICIANS THINK IT'S FINE FOR THEM TO DENY THEIR SERVICES AND/OR PRODUCTS TO PEOPLE THEY DON'T LIKE OR FOR CAUSES THEY DON'T APPROVE OF, BUT THEY DENY THAT RIGHT TO CONSERVATIVES AND RELIGIOUS PEOPLE.

WHICH PROVES ONCE AGAIN - AND LIKE FOR THE ZILLIONTH TIME - THAT LEFTISTS ARE EITHER HYPOCRITICAL SHITHEADS OR UNPRINCIPLED SCUM.

"I think in every election campaign from this point onward, you'll see external groups slugging the market. It'll be very interesting," Netanyahu's top strategist, Aron Shaviv, told The Hill.

"This precedent, I think that we're about to see in Israeli elections, is the same effect that Citizens United vs. FEC had in the United States," Shaviv said, referring to the controversial Supreme Court ruling that allowed nonprofit groups to make unlimited independent political expenditures.

In light of the precedent, Shaviv is considering leading a right-wing political action committee in the next election.

During the campaign, Netanyahu allies decried the influence of foreigners, a group that saw a higher profile this year, arguing they found a loophole by not directly supporting a candidate but merely opposing the Israeli leader.

"The campaign slogan was 'Anyone but Bibi,' " Shaviv said. "Of course it was personal."

Shaviv, who is based in Israel but consults in other mostly European countries, said foreign groups took advantage of independent expenditures this cycle, estimating they outspent political parties in Israel at least 2-to-1 on advertising.

The chances foreign sources will continue this effort to influence Israeli elections is still very high, and that's why more efforts will be needed to put a halt to foreign interference. Even European countries and the USA are going to have to work hard if they don't want their own elections influenced for the wrong reasons.

Hollywood movie mogul Harvey Weinstein told a packed audience at the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s National Tribute Dinner Tuesday night that the way to combat the new wave of anti-Semitism is to “stand up and kick these guys in the ass,” the Los Angeles Times reported.

“It’s like, here we go again, we’re right back where we were [before the Holocaust],” said the 63-year-old Weinstein after accepting the Wiesenthal Center’s Humanitarian Award. “We just can’t take it anymore [from] these crazy bastards.”

“I think it’s time that we, as Jews, get together with the Muslims who are honorable and peaceful, but we also have to go and protect ourselves,” he said. “There’s a quote from Kurt Vonnegut’s book The Sirens of Titan and it always was the motto of Miramax and now the Weinstein Co. It says, 'Good can triumph over evil if the angels are as organized as the mafia.’”

He may be alluding to "moderate" Muslims, but I still don't see why he has to bring that up. What matters is that Jews who really care must fight back against anti-semites the world over. On which note, he's doing the right thing to bring up this issue. But he shouldn't have to dampen the impact by making moot points.